Tag: disappointment
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Bindependence Day?
There were two bins on the ballot in Clacton. The first was made of silver plastic. It wore a cape, spent thirty quid on its campaign, and admitted up front that it was filled with absolute rubbish. The second was made of velvet and tweed. It took a five-million-pound crypto bung, treated the town like…
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The Well Best Forgotten
At the edge of townthere’s a well everyone swearsthey don’t visit.Too dark,too deep,too full of thingsthat were never meant to be pulledinto daylight. But every nightyou can hear the rope creak,the bucket scraping stone,the hush of neighboursleaning over the rimto see what’s floating there. They say the well shows truths.They say it reveals dangersbefore they…